Wish me a dollop of good luck for Sunday!

I thought it wasn't worth explaining the difference between drag and blood hounds. FMF understands we're not foxhunting, which is the main point I wanted to get across.

I've said we're a cleanboot hunt before, explaining what that entails. Strangely enough, even people on our hunt think we draghunt, so I understand the confusion.

Most people who see us out comment on the hounds, as joe public automatically associates fox hounds with hunting, seeing a pack of bloodhounds makes for quite a change to most onlookers.
 
I've no idea who was running today, apart from his name was John.

The runner we normally have runs for the Cheshire Forest too. I *think* he's a marathon runner, if I recall correctly, and uses the hunting season as cross country for building stamina/fitness ahead of marathon season.
 
I completed a thesis on this very topic. It is such a horrendous activity - it all starts in August when they take the pack out to hunt the young ankle socks, they call it ankling. They claim it is necessary to disperse the population of the sock drawer. Then by November they have moved on to fully grown socks. They claim they only chase the holey socks, but I have seen packs in full cry on a healthy beagling stocking or even a brand new duster.

I know for a fact that half a brace of my favourite striped socks mysteriously went missing the same weekend the hunt met in the next village.

I urge you all to join the League Against Cruelty to Socks and stop this barbaric behavious forthwith. Your sock could be the next victim, dipped in fox pee, dragged all over the countryside and chased.
 
Claire - that explains it all, THAT is where all the missing odd socks have gone! Such horrendous cruelty, breaking up a pair-bond :-(

Patches - marathons? Fun? I deduce that they must be mad, mad, mad as cheese ;-) Sounds like fun though (the riding bit, not so much the running!)
 
I think we might have found the bit for my mare to hunt in!

She was in a single jointed cheltenham gag today. No head diving, yanking or careering off. She was perfectly well mannered and I can actually say she was a JOY to hunt today!

Had an absolute blast. We did three legs and were out for two hours. What a way to end mine and Miss P's first season of hunting together. :-)
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Oh my Goooood patches that is brill!!! :) :) :) Funny I only thought of you and your mare the other day and wondered if you'd taken her. Oh do hope you've got your feet up with a glass of wine :) xx
 
I don't drink Skewby, but the coffee was flowing earlier.

I did get injured though....not when hunting bizarrely! Hosing her off when we got home and she bunted me in the thigh, knocking me across the yard. VERY sore leg that feels sort of dead too but it's lasted 8 hours!
 
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